diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_3.0.bb
index 71c3c05640..3621452d4c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_3.0.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ SRC_URI[md5sum] = "47fd7eca8479c757822bee68a1feef25"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c90bfda29605942d08e3e218ef10e3c660506a06651a616bfbb6a6df8392836d"
 
 do_compile_prepend() {
-    cd ${S}
     mkdir -p ${S}/libltdl
     cp ${STAGING_LIBDIR}/libltdl* ${S}/libltdl
 }